Mauro Scoccimarro
Mauro Scoccimarro | |
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Minister of Finance | |
In office December 1945 – January 1947 | |
Prime Minister | Alcide De Gasperi |
Preceded by | Himself |
Succeeded by | Pietro Campilli |
In office June 1945 – December 1945 | |
Prime Minister | Ferruccio Parri |
Preceded by | Antonio Pesenti |
Minister of Occupied Italy | |
In office 12 December 1945 – 21 June 1946 | |
Prime Minister | Ivanoe Bonomi |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | 30 October 1895 Italian Republic |
Political party | Italian Communist Party |
Alma mater | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
Mauro Scoccimarro (30 October 1895 – 2 January 1972) was an Italian economist and communist politician. He was one of the founders of the
Early life and education
Scoccimarro was born in Udine on 30 October 1895.[2][3] His father was of Apulian origin and an employee of the railways.[4]
Scoccimarro graduated from Zanon Technical Institute in Udine in October 1913.[4] He attended Ca' Foscari University of Venice and graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics and political science in 1922.[2] He was involved in World War I and joined socialist party in 1917, but following the party congress in Livorno in 1921 he left the party to establish the Communist Party.[1][5]
Career
Scoccimarro was among the Italian members of the fourth Comintern meeting held in 1922.[5] In 1923 he was made a member of the Communist Party's secretariat together with Antonio Gramsci and Palmiro Togliatti.[1] The same year the party leader Amadeo Bordiga was arrested, and the Comintern Executive Committee assigned a group of party members to lead the party, including Scoccimarro, Palmiro Togliatti, Egidio Gennari, Angelo Tasca and Umberto Terracini.[6] In the party Scoccimarro was part of the faction led by Antonio Gramsci.[7]
Scoccimarro was arrested by the
Scoccimarro's next post was
Death
Scoccimarro died in Rome on 2 January 1972.[2]
Views and works
Scoccimarro was part of the Stalinist faction in the Communist Party in the early 1960s.[12]
Scoccimarro was author of the following books in addition to his other writings:
- La Costituente e il rinnovamento nazionale, 1946
- Dottrina marxista e politica comunista, 1946
- Su alcuni aspetti del nostro programma, 1946
- Il secondo dopoguerra, 2 Bände, 1956
- Nuova democrazia, 1958
- Ideologia e politica, 1960
- La crisi in Alto Adige, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1960.
- Antonio Gramsci, in Trent'anni di storia italiana, 1915-1945. Dall'antifascismo alla Resistenza, Torino, Einaudi, 1961.
- Ideologia marxista e programmazione economica, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1965.
- Il rinnovamento e il rafforzamento del partito, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1966.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Mauro Scoccimarro Dies at 76; A Shaper of Italian Communism". The New York Times. Rome. 3 June 1972. p. 31. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Mauro Scoccimarro" (in Italian). ANPI. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- S2CID 159022732.
- ^ a b "Scoccimarro Mauro (1895-1972)" (in Italian). Biographical Dictionary of Friulani. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ ISBN 9789004288034.
- ^ Lelio La Porta (June 2018). "May 1922-November 1923, Davide Bidussa, Francesco Giasi and Maria Luisa Righi". International Gramsci Journal. 2 (4): 165.
- ^ Fulvio Bellini (1956). "The Italian CP: Part I: The Transformation of a Party, 1921-1945". Problems of Communism. 36: 39.
- ^ JSTOR 442162.
- S2CID 154546885.
- ^ Martinez Oliva; Juan Carlos (2007). "The Italian Stabilization of 1947: Domestic and International Factors". Institute of European Studies: 17.
- ^ Translations on International Communist Developments. Washington, DC: U.S. Joint Publications Research Service. 1966. p. 3-PA59.
- ^ "Italy: Grey-Flannel Communism". Time Magazine. 16 February 1962. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
External links
- Media related to Mauro Scoccimarro at Wikimedia Commons